Nursing Process
The steps of the Nursing Process.
What are A-D-P-I-E, Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation?
This is the practice of reducing the number of organisms present in the environment or reducing the risk for transmission of organisms.
What is Medical Asepsis?
This type of immunity occurs when a person is given an antitoxin or antiserum that contains antibodies or antitoxins that have been developed in another person. Tetanus antitoxin is an example of a substance that provides this. It protects a person from the current invasion of microorganisms but does not provide lasting immunity.
What is Passive Acquired Immunity?
This is the portion of carbohydrates that cannot be broken down by intestinal enzymes and juices, it passes through the small intestine and colon undigested. Food sources include whole grain cereals and the skins of fruits, vegetables, and legumes.
What is Fiber?
This is the only plant source that provides all nine essential amino acids.
What are Soybeans?
The nursing process is a way of thinking and acting based on this, a step-by-step process used by scientists to solve problems.
What is the Scientific Method?
These are places where microorganisms are found. They can be infected wounds, human or animal waste, animals and insects, contaminated (made unclean) food and water, or a person with an infection.
What is a Reservoir?
Contaminated inanimate objects, such as needles, drinking and eating utensils, dressings, and hospital equipment are called this.
What are Fomites?
These type of diet followers may have a diet deficient in vitamin B6, vitamin B12, iron, zinc, calcium, riboflavin, and vitamin D.
What are Vegans?
This is the process of preparing and performing interventions. Equipment and supplies are gathered and procedures are thought through before beginning them. Interventions are performed and responses to them are assessed. Changes in interventions are instituted as needed. Accurate documentation of interventions and patient response occurs.
What is Implementation?
They are officially responsible for the initiation of nursing care plans, but the these people assist with each part of the care plan, often responsible for data collection to assist the with the assessment phase.
What is the RN and the LPN?
Intact skin serves as this, while the immune response is is this.
What is the Body’s First and Third Lines of Defense?
This can be interrupted by identifying and treating infected patients, using isolation techniques and barrier precautions that include the proper handling and disposal of secretions, urine, feces, and exudate.
What is Portal of Exit Transmission?
Symptoms of this include edema, skin pigment changes, impaired growth and development, distention of the abdomen, and liver changes?
What is Kwashiorkor?
Early symptoms of this include HTN, tachycardia, tachypnea, confusion, restlessness.
What is Hypoxia?
This allows for constant alterations in the care plan as patients’ conditions change.
What is the Nursing Process?
There are five methods of this: steam under pressure, dry heat, ethylene oxide, liquid chemicals, and hydrogen peroxide gas plasma.
What is Sterilization?
This is a localized protective response brought on by injury or destruction of tissues. The basic purposes are to (1) neutralize and destroy harmful agents, (2) limit their spread to other tissues in the body, and (3) prepare the damaged tissues for repair.
What is the Inflammatory Response?
The nurse can request this to help patients modify diets to meet nutritional requirements whatever the situation may be.
What is a Dietary Consult?
This should be done first and foremost for a patient with or with a suspected respiratory issue.
What is maintaining an open airway?
This is a series of steps by which the nurse and the patient set priorities and goals to eliminate or diminish identified problems. The goals are stated as specific expected outcomes. The nurse and the patient collaborate and choose specific interventions.
What is Planning?
This is used in addition to Standard Precautions for patients with known or suspected serious illnesses transmitted by large-particle droplets.
What is Droplet Precautions?
This type of immunity is achieved through injection of vaccines or immunizing substances that contain dead or inactive microorganisms or their toxins. The vaccine prompts the body to produce antibodies.
What is Artificially Acquired Immunity?
Solid foods should be introduced gradually to infants one item at a time. This provides the opportunity to identify allergic responses. A single grain cereal such as this is a good initial choice
What is Rice?
Foods clear liquids at room temperature are included in this type of diet, while this type of diet includes all fluids, custards, ice cream, sherbet, puddings and cooked refined cereals.
What are Clear liquid diet and Full Liquid diet?